Atlantis Ilio

This is the second article in a multi-part series about building and maintaining an inexpensive scalable platform for VDI in enterprise environments. Previously in this Series I started this series by defining requirements. Without proper requirements, everything else is moot. Remember that we are looking at running typical enterprise desktop workloads, we are trying to centralize desktops and our primary desktop hosting technology is multi-user Windows, aka RDS/XenApp.

This is a collection of answers to questions around Atlantis Ilio you are likely to have when using the appliance in production. How Can I Get Detailed Load Information? If you want to find out what an Ilio appliance really is doing and the information displayed in Ilio Center is not detailed enough, issue the following on the command line:

[Update on 29/06/2012: added tests 5 and 6 with RAID controller cache and Atlantis Ilio] When a 400 GB SSD comes nearly at the price of a small car, you expect a lot, performance-wise. At least I did when I got my hands on two drives from HP’s enterprise performance series. Read on to find out if that hefty price tag is justified.